Writer: Laredo A&M Mothers’ Club steak plate sale a great success

The Laredo A&M Mothers’ Club had its steak plate sale on Sunday, Feb. 1, which is an annual fundraiser for our scholarship fund.

We are a nonprofit organization whose sole purpose is to award scholarships to our local youth attending Texas A&M University in College Station.

This is one of our biggest fundraisers of the year and the monies raised from it go toward scholarships for Laredo students who will be attending Texas A&M University this fall.

We also use money raised to send gift cards to our students on their birthdays, care packages to freshmen students at the beginning of the semester and another care package to all our students during the week of finals.

We are extremely happy with the patronage of our community, who comes together every year to support our event.

This year, as in previous years, the steak plate sale was a great success.

We want to take this opportunity to thank those people who contributed to this event in form of donations.

A big shout out goes to, Mr. Jose Gamez from Westside Produce, Elizabeth Perez with the A&M Student Perspective Center, Alfredo Ortiz, Veronica Villarreal from Los Patios and to BBVA Compass Bank (McPherson and Hillside) for letting us use their location.

Last but not least we would like to thank the Aggie Moms and Dads who cooked the meat and helped put the plates together.

Without you and your hard work, this would not have been possible.

We are already hard at work for next year’s steak plate sale.

Thank you Laredo for helping our local youth make their dreams of higher education a reality.